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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1911
Page
8
The Pendleton Library plans a book rental scheme with the Civic and Library Club donating new fiction. Patrons will pay seven cents per week to use a book, with revenue funding future acquisitions. The plan aims to refresh fiction holdings without drawing from regular funds, announced by Mrs. Pee, library board chair.
The Knights of Pythias convene tonight with Yorant Stinson and Wrightman addressing the meeting. Damon lodge orchestra will provide music and a continental supper will be served. In Macon Georgia new shops on Central and Georgia streets, built and equipped at a cost of 2,999,999, are now in operation, hailed as a major southern achievement by Major J F Hansen.
C C Connor opening the annual convention of the Umatilla branch of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America urged harmony of interests among farmers stockmen merchants and other county industries. He stressed mutual benefits from cooperation and noted committees formed for press good of order and education among others with reports pending at press time.
N P officials 8 B Calderhead and W B Heath arrived this morning from Walla Walla. Calderhead denies the railroad ever considered removing the local passenger train and says the company favors progression. Read the want ads today.
An up to date cleaning and pressing trial promises a thorough service to remove doubt. Competent help and careful work are offered with a satisfactory job at 20014 FE Alta St. Main 160 is the contact.
Newsy Notes of Pendleton returns with local items about Bean renting the Charles Groulich house and linking with Lee Teulach. Bean previously lived in Pendleton and Portland. Pasco reports a winter water shutoff due to cold weather as pipes may freeze. Floyd Rankin and Arthur Horn paid $10 fines for disorderly conduct after a street altercation on Main street. Bishop R L Paddock to dedicate the Church of the Redeemer rectory this evening at 8 with reception to follow through 10, inviting all attendees.
Representative Charles Adkins of Illinois has been named speaker of the Illinois house. A progressive Republican, this is his second term and his elevation to the chair marks him as an influential member. Dr. Smith visited his cousin during a European trip last spring. Pendleton sees a push to light Main Street with four new street light columns installed by local property owners including F. & Judd Murphy Brothers and stores on Court Street.
As predicted, the building occupied by the French restaurant was sold this morning by Maaneh Lowell and Edgar L. Lowell via deed filed with Recorder Burroughs. They transferred the property to Pacific Coast Investment Company of Olympia, Washington, for $30,000. The Investment Company is a subsidiary of the Olympia Brewing Company.
The funeral for Det Anger, who died yesterday, will be at 2 oclock tomorrow at the Catholic church, followed by burial in Olney Cemetery. Rev Father Durgan of St Marys will conduct. A typographical error omitted Miss Bertha Anger from bereaved relatives. brother Les Anger arrived from Walla Walla and father Frank Anger came from Burbank, Wash., today.
Library up to date on commission plan reports gathered by Miss Fleck from Des Moines Berkeley and other cities. Mayors provided charters and information while inquiries went to Tacoma Galveston and additional commission towns with replies pending.
County Judge J W Maloney opened his first trial this morning as eight Greek men pleaded guilty to deer law violations tied to a Meacham camp. Deputy Game Warden Jim Estes tipped off the scene, seizing the buck from the section crew. Each man was fined 26 dollars and the case moves to Pendleton for grand jury review.
The Orpheum offers a large Pendleton program with six reels and a musical sketch by Harrison and Harris. Features include Seths Temptation a Florida romance. Saved in the Nick of Time. Soap In His Eyes comedy. He Who Laughs Last refined comedy. The Fascinating Mrs Francis Biograph love story. and a new musical sketch plus the four reels. Children 60 cents. adults 1 cent.
Program features The Tintype Romance with a dog named Jean and two tintypes in a comic love tale. The Revolt offers a French history scene. A Tangled Masquerade shows Paul Dunlop Ralph Ford Helen Moore in a tangled love plot. Biograph Call of the Wild runs 1000 feet. four reels at Pastime with extensive illustrated mong.
A mixed page features the Imperial Family tobogganing and winter scenes, a romance titled A Sacrifice and Then with battlefield peril, love, and embezzlement, plus a frontier tale It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight and a buffalo bill inspired plot about an ADT boy facing danger ending with a fatherly rebuke.
Pendleton recorded the season's coldest temperature just after 8 PM with a reading near nine below zero, then the mercury briefly rose above zero as winds shifted south and the sky gray. Daylight brought 20 degrees, fluctuating to 30 below earlier, while snow covers the ground about an inch. wheat likely safe unless temperatures drop further.
Campaign committees soliciting subscriptions for a twelve thousand dollar Round-up fund report surpassing the ten thousand dollar threshold shortly after noon today. Large donations from Peoples Warehouse American National Bank Pendleton Woolen Mills and several others push promising pledges for next week.
Oregon Agricultural College Corvallis January 14 The winter short course enrollment has risen over sixty percent this year with continued registrations and expected gains. Horticulture leads with 120 students and all courses show higher attendance. Students from nearly every region of the state are represented and the first week indicates growing popularity and success.
Classified ad highlights several properties including a 7 room corner house with utilities for 850 dollars, a 6 room west court street home with 320 acres at 25 dollars per acre, two river rice land sections with irrigation, 160 acres in wheat, a Main street business proposition, and a 500 acre stock ranch in the Chinook belt with rich water and grass, all with exchange options and limited details.
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